Three major Naga civil society organisations — the United Naga Council (UNC), the Naga Women's Union (NWU), and the All Naga Students' Association, Manipur (ANSAM) — submitted a joint memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 9 May 2026, urging his personal and immediate intervention in what they describe as a proxy war being waged against the Naga people in Manipur.

The memorandum, addressed to the Prime Minister at South Block, New Delhi, warns that foreign-backed Kuki militants operating under the Suspension of Operations (SoO) agreement and the Myanmar-based Kuki National Army Burma (KNA-B) are executing a coordinated campaign of demographic aggression and ethnic cleansing in Naga ancestral homeland, in direct violation of the landmark Indo-Naga Framework Agreement signed on 3 August 2015.

The immediate trigger for the memorandum was a large-scale armed assault on 7 May 2026 in which approximately 100 heavily armed KNA(B) militants breached the International Indo-Myanmar Border and razed the Naga villages of Z Choro, Namlee-Wanglee, and Kaka to the ground in Kamjong, Ukhrul district of Manipur.

The organisations cite credible evidence that the attacks were not spontaneous ethnic clashes but a coordinated foreign military incursion. Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL), the apex civil organisation of the Tangkhul Naga tribe, confirmed that civilian settlements were bombed using drones — regulated military assets under the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). Attackers also deployed rocket launchers and 40 mm breach-loading guns, described by the memorandum as crew-served military-grade weapons that confirm organised foreign supply chains.

The assault took place barely 200 metres from the 11 Assam Rifles company stationed between Choro and Aloyo, and occurred within 24 hours of a security inspection by Central Security Forces on 6 May 2026. The memorandum characterises the proximity of the attack to an Indian security post as indefensible and an indictment of intelligence preparedness.

The Village Volunteer Eastern Zone (VVEZ) has itself admitted that Myanmar-based Shanni Nationalities Army (SNA) elements — an insurgent group allied with the Myanmar Tatmadaw — provided operational assistance. Eyewitness accounts and reports from the Conglomerate of Manipur Civil Organisation (COCOMI) confirm that attackers wore military camouflage and operated in structured formations, conclusively ruling out the characterisation of these forces as local community volunteers.

The memorandum invokes Article 355 of the Constitution of India, under which the Union Government is obligated to protect every State against external aggression, and demands that the 7 May 2026 attacks be treated as a foreign-backed invasion warranting military, legal, and diplomatic responses.

The 7 May attack did not occur in isolation. The memorandum documents an undeclared war against multiple Naga villages — Litan, S. Laho, Sakarphung, Thoyee, Sinakeithei, and Ringui — which have been under sustained siege by Kuki militants. Sinakeithel village in Ukhrul district has been subjected to bombing and firing every night since 7 March 2026, while Central Security Forces posted in the area have remained passive.

In areas including Liangmai and Inpui Naga territories, Kuki armed groups have engaged in systematic intimidation, extortion, and forcible encroachment of village lands — with the word 'Kukiland' being inscribed to assert territorial claims that the memorandum describes as historically unsubstantiated.

The three organisations assert that the SoO agreement, originally framed to contain armed conflict, has been converted into a licence for territorial expansion. SoO cadres and KNA(B) militants are reported to be operating in tandem, engaging in targeted killings of Naga civilians, burning of ancestral villages, highway terrorism, and systematic extortion, in violation of the SoO ground rules both in letter and in spirit.

The National Highway connecting Ukhrul and Imphal has been disrupted due to what the memorandum terms explicit terrorist activities by illegal Kuki militants on the mountain ranges along the route.

One of the most striking passages in the memorandum concerns events following the outbreak of Meitei-Kuki violence on 3 May 2023. Naga villages across Manipur sheltered thousands of displaced Kuki civilians, providing refuge and humanitarian assistance during that period. As recently as early 2026, around 300 Kuki refugees from Myanmar who had fled violence in that country were being hosted in the Naga villages of Namlee-Wanglee.

The same villages that extended this hospitality were razed on 7 May 2026. The memorandum states that children of these hosted refugees were inducted into the People's Defence Force (PDF) and KNA(B), and directly participated in the arson of Namlee-Wanglee and Z Choro, driving their Naga hosts into the forest. The organisations describe this as an unbelievable betrayal — humanitarian hospitality repaid with fire and bullets.

The joint memorandum places six specific demands before the Prime Minister.

First, the Government of India must uphold the Framework Agreement of 3 August 2015 and end what the organisations characterise as its ongoing appeasement of Kuki militant groups, which they argue constitutes a proxy war against the very people with whom the agreement was signed.

Second, the memorandum demands immediate military eviction of KNA(B), PDF, and all SoO cadres violating ground rules from Liangmai and Inpui Naga areas, and from the districts of Ukhrul, Kamjong, and Kangpokpi.

Third, the organisations call for a categorical government declaration that no form of autonomy, separate administration, or territorial council shall encroach upon Naga ancestral lands.

Fourth, all National Highways must be sanitised and illegal armed checkpoints dismantled. Fifth, a time-bound judicial inquiry must be constituted into the 7 May 2026 cross-border invasion and the sustained attacks since 7 March 2026. Sixth, the memorandum urges the expeditious conclusion of an inclusive and final Indo-Naga political settlement based on the 2015 Framework Agreement, describing such a settlement as the only durable means of securing India's eastern frontier.

Copies of the memorandum were forwarded to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Minister of External Affairs Dr. S. Jaishankar for information and necessary action.

Conclusion

The joint memorandum was signed by Ng. Lorho, President of the United Naga Council; Ch. Priscilla Thiumai, President of the Naga Women's Union; and Th. Angteshang Maring, President of the All Naga Students' Association, Manipur.

The Naga people, the memorandum concludes, have chosen the path of peace and signed the Framework Agreement in good faith. The organisations urge the Prime Minister to translate that agreement into a permanent solution, enabling the Nagas to partner in India's economy and development as a nation engaged with South and Southeast Asia.